PAD News

The Surrey Heartlands Joint Formulary & PAD was launched on 22nd May 2025 following a long period of consultation and collaboration to align and replace the previous formularies of Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The Formulary applies the same colour classification system (Traffic Light Status) that is already established across Surrey and is built on the decisions reached by the Surrey Heartlands Area Prescribing Committee (APC) and the Acute Trust Drugs & Therapeutic Committees (DTCs or equivalent).

Important - there are several therapeutic areas that are still subject to review and have not yet been added to the formulary. These are being treated as a priority and will be added to the formulary in the coming months:

• Nutrition (including feeds and vitamin / mineral supplements for deficiency)
• Skin (including preparations for acne, actinic keratosis, psoriasis, emollients)
• Mental health (including antidepressants, antipsychotics, dementia)
• Antifungals, antimalarials and treatment of infestations
• Anaesthetics (local, general, topical)
• Vaccines
• Smoking cessation (nicotine replacement products and prescription only medicines)
• Devices used in diabetes (testing reagents, needles, lancets)
• IV fluids
• Wound management
• Appliances (continence, stoma etc)

Feedback - this is a new platform containing several thousand entries. Please do use the Contact us feature to let us know if you think that an entry is incorrect or missing (taking note of the pending list of therapeutic areas above). Let us know if you are using a search-term that is not producing the search results that you would expect. Your feedback will be essential in improving the content and searchability of the formulary.

(The Contact Us feature is not to be used as a clinical enquiry service. Please continue to contact your local pharmacy team for these queries)

The content of this platform is managed by a small number of colleagues within the Acute Trust Pharmacy Teams and the Primary Care Medicines Optimisation Team.

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